The War for Kindness

Zusatztext 'Lucid! stimulating . . . [ The War for Kindness aims] to challenge antiquated views of the brain and human behaviour. . . . Zaki issues a call for concerted action to build empathy in a world he sees as fractured and threatened by escalating tribalism! cruelty! and isolation' - The American Scholar Informationen zum Autor JAMIL ZAKI received his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University, and then conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard University Center for Brain Sciences. He is now a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behaviour, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions (empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (altruism). His work on empathy has been well received in the academic community. He has published over 50 articles, spoken at about 100 conferences around the world, and received awards from organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and Harvard and Stanford Universities. He is also passionate about applying this research, and has joined forces with many people outside academia to help advise and test empathy-building interventions. Jamil is an avid science communicator for years, devoting great energy to helping the public understand their power of empathy. He has written about how a "choice view" of empathy speaks to policing (for The New Yorker ), parenting (for The Atlantic Monthly ), philanthropy (for The New York Times ) and medicine (for Nautilus Magazine ). He has also written about empathy and pro-sociality for Scientific American and WIRED . His outreach efforts have broadened even further more recently, through The Lutz Experiment (forthcoming from Simon & Schuster), a collaborative book project with the comedian and writer John Lutz ( SNL , 30 Rock, The Late Show with Seth Myers ). Klappentext 'In a time when it seems empathy is a lost cause and compassion is a dying art, it may not be too late to revive the better angels of our nature. Jamil Zaki is one of the brightest lights in psychology, and in this gripping book he shows that kindness is not a sign of weakness but a source of strength' Adam Grant, author of Give and Take , Originals and Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg) These are divisive times. Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren't like us but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. It doesn't have to be this way. Psychologist and neuroscientist Jamil Zaki argues that empathy is not a fixed trait from birth but rather a skill that we can all strengthen through effort. Drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, Zaki shows how we can harness this new mindset to overcome toxic cultural divisions. He also tells the stories of people who are living these principles and fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. We meet a former neo-Nazi who is now helping extract people from hate groups, ex-prisoners discussing novels with the judge who sentenced them, police officers changing their culture to decrease violence among their ranks, and nurses fine-tuning their empathy so that they don't succumb to burnout. Written with clarity and passion, The War for Kindness is an inspiring call to action. Our future may depend on whether we accept the challenge. Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and t...

'Lucid, stimulating . . . [The War for Kindness aims] to challenge antiquated views of the brain and human behaviour. . . . Zaki issues a call for concerted action to build empathy in a world he sees as fractured and threatened by escalating tribalism, cruelty, and isolation' - The American Scholar

Préface
At the forefront of empathy research, Dr. Jamil Zaki has made an important discovery: empathy is flexible.

Auteur

JAMIL ZAKI received his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University, and then conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard University Center for Brain Sciences. He is now a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural bases of social behaviour, and in particular on how people understand each other's emotions (empathic accuracy), why they conform to each other (social influence), and why they choose to help each other (altruism). His work on empathy has been well received in the academic community. He has published over 50 articles, spoken at about 100 conferences around the world, and received awards from organizations including the National Science Foundation, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and Harvard and Stanford Universities. He is also passionate about applying this research, and has joined forces with many people outside academia to help advise and test empathy-building interventions.

Jamil is an avid science communicator for years, devoting great energy to helping the public understand their power of empathy. He has written about how a "choice view" of empathy speaks to policing (for The New Yorker), parenting (for The Atlantic Monthly), philanthropy (for The New York Times) and medicine (for Nautilus Magazine). He has also written about empathy and pro-sociality for Scientific American and WIRED. His outreach efforts have broadened even further more recently, through The Lutz Experiment (forthcoming from Simon & Schuster), a collaborative book project with the comedian and writer John Lutz (SNL, 30 Rock, The Late Show with Seth Myers).

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'In a time when it seems empathy is a lost cause and compassion is a dying art, it may not be too late to revive the better angels of our nature. Jamil Zaki is one of the brightest lights in psychology, and in this gripping book he shows that kindness is not a sign of weakness but a source of strength' Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, Originals and Option B (with Sheryl Sandberg)

These are divisive times. Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren't like us but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago.

It doesn't have to be this way. Psychologist and neuroscientist Jamil Zaki argues that empathy is not a fixed trait from birth but rather a skill that we can all strengthen through effort.

Drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, Zaki shows how we can harness this new mindset to overcome toxic cultural divisions. He also tells the stories of people who are living these principles and fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. We meet a former neo-Nazi who is now helping extract people from hate groups, ex-prisoners discussing novels with the judge who sentenced them, police officers changing their culture to decrease violence among their ranks, and nurses fine-tuning their empathy so that they don't succumb to burnout.

Written with clarity and passion, The War for Kindness is an inspiring call to action. Our future may depend on whether we accept the challenge.

Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.